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[sasguru]

As an aside to the above, Socrates was ridiculed in own time as a buffoon...

Exactly the point.
Probably because the Greeks were too busy talking about who saw which Olympian buying souvlaki at the market last weekend.

[TimberWolf]

I saw Michael Caine while he was doing some outside filming. He was taking the mickey out of a taxi driver, probably to get him to move the car. Saying things like how did he end up being a taxi driver or something, quite theatrically and loudly. The taxi driver soon shifted, while Cain continued sticking the verbal boot in.

[Mich the Tester]

On the subject of the Greeks, as a small child visiting Harrods with my parents I pointed at some fat long haired bloke and laughed at him and said ‘look at that fat hairy man; he looks like a grizzly bear’. He turned round and stared at me and my mum said ‘that’s Demis Roussos, that is’. ‘Sorry about that’, she said to him and he walked off with a grin.

I said ‘who’s Demis Roussos?’

Mum (as he walked off) ‘he’s a big fat hairy bloke’.

[Gibbon]

Gibbon,
Moses Finley has a great essay on the Athenian perception of Socrates in "Aspects of Antiquity"

Thanks. Will look it up.

[Gibbon]

On the subject of the Greeks, as a small child visiting Harrods with my parents I pointed at some fat long haired bloke and laughed at him and said ‘look at that fat hairy man; he looks like a grizzly bear’. He turned round and stared at me and my mum said ‘that’s Demis Roussos, that is’. ‘Sorry about that’, she said to him and he walked off with a grin.

I said ‘who’s Demis Roussos?’

Mum (as he walked off) ‘he’s a big fat hairy bloke’.

Do children now do the same to you? Only to be disappointed when you turn out not be the Wookie

[Gibbon]

Gibbon,
Moses Finley has a great essay on the Athenian perception of Socrates in "Aspects of Antiquity"

Just looked it up, serious thanks are in order. I'm starting the OU classical course in Oct and that book looks like it might be a great help. Will be purchasing tonight

[Boudica]

Broad strokes of assumption there. The really sad thing is that you think it is a serious subject and feel so serious about it to post serious drivel on a thread that is just a harmless amusement. Lighten up Saddo....

Indeed Gibbon, maybe he is right, maybe I am a bit pathetic, however I think you have a point about the need of an even sadder person to comment in such a hostile way. I suspect he is (yet another) sadguru sockie.

I'm sure if Einstein did meet/see sas he would instantly recognise what a gonk he was an avoid him.

[sasguru]

Indeed Gibbon, maybe he is right, maybe I am a bit pathetic, however I think you have a point about the need of an even sadder person to comment in such a hostile way. I suspect he is (yet another) sadguru sockie.

I'm sure if Einstein did meet/see sas he would instantly recognise what a gonk he was an avoid him.

Oh diddums. Is gonk your word of the day?
Oh and Luke is not my sockie. Are you finding it hard to accept that more than one person can disagree with you?

[shaunbhoy]

It really is sad the way we put people on pedestals, most of whom are thick are planks and contribute nothing tangible to humanity.

I think it can safely be assumed that the rest of YOUR pathetic existence, sas, will remain "pedestal free".

[Boudica]

Oh diddums. Is gonk your word of the day?
Oh and Luke is not my sockie. Are you finding it hard to accept that more than one person can disagree with you?

It is actually, it's good isn't it, can you spell it or did you need to copy and paste?

I am sure many many people disagree with me and I know I am not 'the sharpest tool etc, however, that is preferable to imagining I am something I am not.